Sharing Responsibilities - Contrasting images of corporate behaviour and Political initiatives
Last week the whole world witnesed the spirit of ever enterprising mumbaikars among the mumbai rains.Salute to the spirit of the people who didnt even need the hint to come and take over the batten to carry the task of completing the difficult race against the calamities.As the water started rising above the waist level , the people gathered on their own to help people out of the calamity.The noticable courage of common man echoed the true nature of swayam-sevak philosophy and its importance in the society.
Corporates too fared well,for instance Airtel waved off charges on all local calls within city and continued providing service in difficult times.ACC donated money and took responsibilities of rehabilitation.Samsung will provide free service and repair of appliances.More and more corporates are coming forward.HDFC,Tatas and Mahindras are also coming forward .Reliance Energy may have been accused of delaying electricity, but still they were doing their best to combat the grave situation knowing the underground supply getting waterlogged. I firmly believe that cause is the essence behind every willpower and good corporate stories are based on this premises.
On other hand, picture on government and bureucracy is not encouraging.People could not be informed beforehand about the bad weather.No task force could be seen to combat situation until the next day.After days saw only blamegames being played and High Command asking for report cards of bigwig in politics.It only exposes the world to unpreparedness of local and state administration to combat crisis.When the moment arrived there was no-one common man could look upto for instance.Of course handling mumbai is by no angle easy and managable but political bigwigs have enough arms to handle situations like these and what talk about funds in front of them.All now they have to do is manage the funds that they have received from Center gor the relief.Again as I say....good will would only come if there is a good cause that one is fighting for.
Spirit of mumbai comes from common man's efforts to exist and excel in most fiersely competitive and inhuman situations.
Corporates too fared well,for instance Airtel waved off charges on all local calls within city and continued providing service in difficult times.ACC donated money and took responsibilities of rehabilitation.Samsung will provide free service and repair of appliances.More and more corporates are coming forward.HDFC,Tatas and Mahindras are also coming forward .Reliance Energy may have been accused of delaying electricity, but still they were doing their best to combat the grave situation knowing the underground supply getting waterlogged. I firmly believe that cause is the essence behind every willpower and good corporate stories are based on this premises.
On other hand, picture on government and bureucracy is not encouraging.People could not be informed beforehand about the bad weather.No task force could be seen to combat situation until the next day.After days saw only blamegames being played and High Command asking for report cards of bigwig in politics.It only exposes the world to unpreparedness of local and state administration to combat crisis.When the moment arrived there was no-one common man could look upto for instance.Of course handling mumbai is by no angle easy and managable but political bigwigs have enough arms to handle situations like these and what talk about funds in front of them.All now they have to do is manage the funds that they have received from Center gor the relief.Again as I say....good will would only come if there is a good cause that one is fighting for.
Spirit of mumbai comes from common man's efforts to exist and excel in most fiersely competitive and inhuman situations.
posted by i at 4:57 AM
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